# iFrames

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [June 7, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720 "2003-06-07T17:30:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/1 "2003-06-07T17:30:04Z")

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What are iFrames exactly ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/2 "2003-06-07T17:45:10Z")

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iframes, or “inline frames” are an inovation in HTML 4.0 that allows you to place a frame wherever you want in a html-page. That is to say: You don’t have to split up your page in multiple frames to load content exactly where you want it anymore. [This guy](http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/tutors/inlineframes.html) will explain it in nice friendly terms…

-M

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/3 "2003-06-07T17:46:54Z")

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And hell… There are no stupid questions, isn’t that what they say.

(Well, except the guy who wanted to know how to undress people in photoshop, and still came back the next day and complained that he couldn’t find the X-Ray filter I jokingly had told him about. 🙂 )

-M

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/4 "2003-06-07T18:00:30Z")

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LOL 😛

Thanks for the info =). So how do you create these things ? They look interesting 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/5 "2003-06-07T18:07:53Z")

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go to skelo2.prv.pl

ive made one - take a look

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/6 "2003-06-07T18:10:23Z")

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And / or check out the link in my first post up there. 😉

-M

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/7 "2003-06-07T18:11:31Z")

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Missed that link. Thanks fluid & Martin :beam:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/8 "2003-06-07T18:16:23Z")

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No sweat.  
Inline frames are friggin great stuff, but remember that only Gen 4 browsers can handle them, so you might want another solution if you’re developing for the complete end-users…

-M

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/9 "2003-06-07T19:42:33Z")

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does netscape handle iframes ? what about opera ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/10 "2003-06-07T20:04:12Z")

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I’m on a mac, and I always test my sites in all my browsers, so I can say that on a mac the latest versions of Netscape, Opera, Camino (nee Mozilla), Safari and IE handles iframes pretty well.

On Windows I think I’ve only tested Netscape and IE, but I’d presume Opera does the job there as well.

-M

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/11 "2003-06-10T13:49:44Z")

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So can you implement these into Flash ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/iframes/22720/12 "2003-06-10T14:16:25Z")

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not into Flash. Flash only handles basic text formatting like b, i, u, br
